Florida Current transport variability: An analysis of annual and longer-period signals

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 835-846

  Meinen, Christopher S ^a   Baringer, Molly O ^a   Garcia, Rigoberto F ^b  

^a Hurricane Research Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cable; Float; Florida Current; Gulf Stream; Time series; Transport

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL MEAN; BEFORE AND AFTER; DATA REQUIREMENTS; ERROR ESTIMATES; FLORIDA CURRENT; GULF STREAM; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INTERANNUAL; PERIOD VARIABILITY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STANDARD ERRORS; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME WINDOWS; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT VARIABILITY; WIND STRESS CURL;

CABLES; CLIMATOLOGY; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SILICON SOLAR CELLS; TIME SERIES; WIND STRESS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATOLOGY; CURRENT VELOCITY; GYRE; TIME SERIES; WIND STRESS; WIND-DRIVEN CURRENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA CURRENT;

EID: 77954862826     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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